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the problem with my blog getting stuck in their queue. Kudos to Eric M.
and the guys at
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where they have "community powered support for Technorati".

Well, they're "sorta, kinda" indexing me anyway. It's on a 24 hour tape
delay or something. So I never get picked up by Memeorandum because they
pull from Technorati and Technorati has stuff I posted yesterday
listed as my latest blog entry. And that's old news to Memeorandum.

Wankers.

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Here in the bluest of blue states, where lily-livered liberals recoil in
horror at the sight of nerf guns,
more people than ever are applying for firearms permits.

Statistics show the surge was seen across New Jersey last month, a reaction
law enforcement officials attribute to the worry that more stringent firearm
regulations will take effect in the wake of the Dec. 14 school shooting.

New Jersey's gun laws are already among the strictest in the nation, with a
ban on automatic weapons, high-capacity magazines and other components. But
it appears residents fear the passage of even stricter measures.

FBI statistics on gun purchases bear out the increase.

In December, the number of point-of-purchase background checks on gun buyers
stood at 10,047, up 45 percent from December 2011, when 6,941 checks were
conducted, according to the National Instant Criminal background check System,
or NICS. The NICS check is the final review before a gun store owner may hand
over a weapon.

For all of 2012, New Jersey gun stores filed 85,851 request checks through the
NICS system, compared to 60,256 in 2011, a jump of nearly 25,500, or 42 percent.

Firearms rights advocate Frank Jack Fiamingo said concerns about tougher
regulations reached a tipping point after the Connecticut shooting, driving
many people to file for gun permits.

"I'm sure of it. I'm positive of it," said Fiamingo, 63, an Ocean County
resident who serves as president of the New Jersey Second Amendment Society.

Residents seeking permits for the first time often wait months to get
approvals, Fiamingo said. New regulations would further deprive people
of their rights, he contends.

It takes months before the government will, maybe, graciously
allow you to exercise your Constitutional rights. And Dear Leader wants to make
it even harder. Somehow though I think his plan might be backfiring.